Another televised World Poker Tour final table is set. This time, it’s the Season XVIII WPT L.A. Poker Classic. The event drew 490 entries to Commerce Casino and generated a prize pool of $4.727 million. Just six players remain and they’ll be on hiatus until action resumes at the HyperX Esports Arena in Las Vegas… Continue reading Balakrishna Patur Leads WPT LAPC Final Table

The crazy week for the World Poker Tour continued on Friday afternoon as the $10,000 buy-in ARIA Summer Championship played down to a winner. Matthew Wantman eliminated four of the final six players to win $443,475 and his first WPT title. Wantman also earned automatic entry into the WPT Tournament of Champions that gets underway… Continue reading WPT: Matthew Wantman Takes Down ARIA Summer Championship

The World Poker Tour will close out 2018 action with the prestigious WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic. The tournament, held at the iconic Bellagio Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, will be the eighth WPT Main Tour stop of Season XVII. It’s an event that comes with a $10,400 buy-in and has been… Continue reading WPT Five Diamond To Shine at Bellagio in December

Kevin Eyster(pictured), known on PocketFives as 1SickDisease, won the World Poker Tour’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic on Saturday night at the Bellagio in Las Vegas for $1.5 million. He’ll also get a seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions.

It took one more day than originally planned, but Kevin 1SickDiseaseEyster (pictured) captured gold in Event #24 of the 2014 World Series of Poker, a $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max tournament that drew 541 entrants. Eyster told WSOP officials what the win meant: “This is what I’ve been dreaming about for my whole life. This… Continue reading 1SickDisease Wins First WSOP Bracelet

Play went on for 12 hours on Thursday in Event #24 of the 2014 World Series of Poker, a $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max tournament. In the end, the action was paused until 1:00pm Pacific Time on Friday with two people remaining: Kevin 1SickDiseaseEyster (pictured) and Pierre Neuville.